Attacks on Christians—Douglas Murray Direct Address 3/12/25 (Edited Transcript.)
(I no longer do “threads” but this Direct Address deserved the reading space.)
“I'm Douglas Murray. …I wanted to talk today about a story which I think has had far too little attention, but which has been much on my mind. That is the situation of the persecuted Christian churches, particularly in The Middle East and in Africa. In recent weeks, in one incident alone in Congo, Seventy Christians were abducted and beheaded by Islamist militia.
In more recent days in Syria, the ancient Christian churches of that country have once again been under attack. It turns out that the Islamists who now run Syria aren't that great or greatly concerned about protecting Christian minorities and who could have seen that coming. But the real question about all this, which I hear from many people, including many readers, is why is there so little attention to this? Why is there so little news or reaction to atrocities like those I just described?
…You'll find a bit of green stuff thrown in, of course. But next to nothing about the persecuted Christians of Syria, of Congo, and elsewhere, skip. …it's still rather striking to me that the Roman Catholic church also remains relatively silent about the killing and persecution of members of its own faith community.
The Christian church has a long memory, but you don't have to have a especially long memory to go back to 02/2006. That's when the then pope of Benedict the sixteenth gave his famous Regensburg address. That address was a remarkable piece of work. Benedict among other things talked about the intersection of faith and reason. He talked about many things of great depth, but in the course of his remarks, he quoted, just quoted a fourteenth century Byzantine emperor who said something disobliging about the way in which Islam had been spread as a religion from the beginning. …Noting, by the way, that, Islam had very often been spread by the sword. Pope Benedict made it clear that he wasn't in any way endorsing the comments that he was quoting, but the reaction suggested that in fact, the quotation from the fourteenth century Byzantine Emperor wasn't that far off. As usual, it seemed that people around the world who were offended by the pope citing this Byzantine emperor were doing that usual thing of saying, you've got to say my religion is peaceful, otherwise, I might kill you. And indeed, there were attacks on Christians in the wake of the Ravensburg address, around the world. In the West Bank and in Gaza, Palestinian Muslims attacked Christian churches.
In Iraq, Syrian Christians were also attacked and kidnapped and killed. And in Somalia, a 65 year old Italian nun was killed by some brave Jihadists who, again, were trying very hard to prove the peacefulness of their particular faith. In the wake of that response, that violent response to the Ravensburg Address, Pope Benedict and indeed most of the western churches decided not to tread into this terrain again. …The Pope's own foreign office advisers seem to have told him that if he wanted to make sure that no 65 year old Italian nuns were gonna get killed again, then he ought to perhaps not be quoting anything about Islam.
🚨 Have you ever heard a white person angry about a guiltily verdict and lenient sentence for a murderer? Either because of race like this video or even the killer's own family? We have a problem. What causes this?
@patriotgravy@AmericaPapaBear Man speaks the truth... love his posts.
Unfortunately, he'll be long gone before hearing any of the answers to his questions.
Yesterday the boys got a real look at the work most people never see.
Express Disposal taught them about trash pickup, damaged cans, tire pickups, daily routes, and what happens at the landfill.
The bigger lesson: respect the essential workers who keep our communities moving.
Thank you Express Disposal and Mr. Clint.
JORDAN: How much fraud is too much fraud?
JORDAN: How many foreign contributions did you accept?
JORDAN: How much did you receive from Russia?
JORDAN: Why did your legal team quit?
ActBlue CEO: I plead the fifth x4
ActBlue is under House GOP + DOJ scrutiny for weak fraud controls that enabled straw donors (gift cards, prepaid, name laundering) and foreign contributions. Reports cite loosened 2024 rules despite known issues, foreign IP fraud campaigns detected, compliance team exodus, and internal lawyer warnings that CEO Wallace-Jones may have misled Congress on vetting. The high pay, $3M+ security, and luxury travel add to questions about priorities. Her testimony today may surface more internal details. ActBlue calls it partisan and says safeguards work.
BREAKING: IRS records reveal ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones, now under federal investigation, has been getting paid double the previous CEO, hauling in almost $800k/yr, and has spent almost $3 mil on security inclg a retinue of personal bodyguards, while blowing thru a nearly $5 mil travel budget inclg checking herself into presidential suites at luxury hotels
🚨WATCH: @RepLoudermilk is STUNNED after ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones pleads the Fifth to a question clarifying her name.
"Okay, wow. Didn't expect that one."
COVERUP: ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones just told Congress she will plead the Fifth rather than answer questions about donation verification. Regina replaced Erin Hill as CEO to bring 'credibility' to the beleaguered fundraising arm of the Democrat Party.
ActBlue's CEO published an op-ed on why she's pleading the 5th today during @HouseAdmin's hearing.
They allegedly allowed foreign donations to Democrats. They lied to Congress about it. Now they want to stay silent.
We will keep digging for the truth.
Mahender Makhijani, 44, a lawful permanent resident from India living in Corona del Mar, was arrested this morning on a federal criminal complaint charging him with defrauding a bank out of nearly $100 million.
Makhijani controlled Cantor Group V LLC, a Newport Beach-based company that had a lending agreement requiring it to pledge only first-lien real estate loans to the victim bank.
Makhijani falsified title policies from September 2024 to April 2025 to make it appear Cantor held first-lien positions when other creditors were ahead. Makhijani and a subordinate forged documents in Adobe, altered metadata, and submitted the falsified records to the victim bank, while also providing misleading explanations during calls and in spreadsheets.
If convicted, Makhijani faces a statutory maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison. He is expected to make his initial appearance this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California. All defendants are presumed innocent until convicted in court.
Our nation’s economy and welfare depend on a healthy banking system. When lenders are deceived, it has downstream effects on consumers and businesses.